Reading

‘The more you read, the more you know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.’      Dr Seuss

The National Curriculum states that:

'English has a pre-eminent place in education and in society. A high-quality education in English will teach pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others and through their reading and listening, others can communicate with them. All the skills of language are essential to participating fully as a member of society; pupils, therefore, who do not learn to speak, read and write fluently and confidently are effectively disenfranchised.'

Intent

It is our ambition that our English curriculum will ignite and instil a personal love of reading for all children. Through exposure to a wide range of texts children become fluent and confident readers, developing and nurturing their word reading and comprehension knowledge and skills. By engaging with texts across a variety of genres, they are exposed to a diverse range of books and authors and presented with the opportunity to read, for both pleasure and knowledge, across the curriculum.

Implementation

We use a range of reading resources, nominally a whole-class shared novel. We understand that a well-chosen text provides rich language models and structures from which children can learn how writing works and the effect it can have on a reader. Therefore we read aloud and share high quality class novels and texts across a range of genres, reflecting a range of writing styles. We choose texts that are rich in vocabulary, and that enable children to comprehend beyond their own reading fluency level. 

We know that children draw on their experience of reading when shaping their own writing. When children have explored a range of texts across genres, they form an understanding and appreciation of how language functions and how best to use this when writing themselves.

Have a look at your child's year group page to see some recommended reads!